Businesses should concentrate on what they are good at. They
should concentrate on their core business. Frameworks allow an Enterprise to do
something without having to start from scratch. Frameworks should allow Enterprises
to lever accepted wisdom without them having to invest huge amounts of time and
money. But do they?

Here we see the timeline of many “EA Frameworks” and what
influenced POET and PEAF.

All of these frameworks except PEAF are not true EA
frameworks as they limit themselves to IT and the things that touch IT. They
also tend to be more concerned with in project execution rather than cross
project planning.